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symposium The Crossroads of Literature and Social Praxis the crossroads of literature and social praxis, ljubljana, 2018 9
will be devoted to the research on the interaction of litera
ture and its social context. On the one hand this opens the
question of how literature and art take part in the circulation of
significations and representations in the construction of social re
ality. On the other hand the path is opened to the research on
how actants in a given society use (and abuse) literary praxis in the
creation of specific significations, as well as research on the ideo
logical narratives that are reproduced in society. With the Althus
serian school at the latest, as well as the theory of discourse, it be
came clear that literature should not necessarily be understood as
an autonomous social praxis. On the contrary, it may be interpret
ed as a praxis operating within discursive formations, where signi
fications are (re)produced, even in the manner of using the ideolo
gy of autonomy. In cultural studies, literature is likewise regarded as
a praxis in the circuit of culture which operates as an intersection
of identity, production and consumption of cultural products, their
regulation and representation; it therefore also operates as a dis
cursive process (re)producing social meanings.
The symposium The Crossroads of Literature and Social Praxis will not
altogether ignore the theoretical observation of these problems; in
the past five decades, the research on these issues has been very
fruitful and diverse, and to some extent exhausted. This is why we
would like our symposium to focus on case studies revealing the
mechanisms of literary and social representations both in a more
general context (e.g. cases of national ideology) as well as within
specific social contexts. The symposium would like to shed some
light on the period after World War 2, especially on the operation
of discursive formations in countries of both the Eastern and the
Western Bloc, i.e. the eastern communist and the western capital
ist countries; these can also be compared with regard to the open
and/or latent (hidden) ideological interpelation in their societies.
will be devoted to the research on the interaction of litera
ture and its social context. On the one hand this opens the
question of how literature and art take part in the circulation of
significations and representations in the construction of social re
ality. On the other hand the path is opened to the research on
how actants in a given society use (and abuse) literary praxis in the
creation of specific significations, as well as research on the ideo
logical narratives that are reproduced in society. With the Althus
serian school at the latest, as well as the theory of discourse, it be
came clear that literature should not necessarily be understood as
an autonomous social praxis. On the contrary, it may be interpret
ed as a praxis operating within discursive formations, where signi
fications are (re)produced, even in the manner of using the ideolo
gy of autonomy. In cultural studies, literature is likewise regarded as
a praxis in the circuit of culture which operates as an intersection
of identity, production and consumption of cultural products, their
regulation and representation; it therefore also operates as a dis
cursive process (re)producing social meanings.
The symposium The Crossroads of Literature and Social Praxis will not
altogether ignore the theoretical observation of these problems; in
the past five decades, the research on these issues has been very
fruitful and diverse, and to some extent exhausted. This is why we
would like our symposium to focus on case studies revealing the
mechanisms of literary and social representations both in a more
general context (e.g. cases of national ideology) as well as within
specific social contexts. The symposium would like to shed some
light on the period after World War 2, especially on the operation
of discursive formations in countries of both the Eastern and the
Western Bloc, i.e. the eastern communist and the western capital
ist countries; these can also be compared with regard to the open
and/or latent (hidden) ideological interpelation in their societies.
